Written questions
3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.
24 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of universal credit access to childcare accounts equivalent to those proposed in the Childcare Payments Bill for claimants of tax-free childcare.
24 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2014 to Question 210464, what metrics are used to track and manage timeliness of payments within the benefits system.
23 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recommendations the Work Programme Building Best Practice Group has made to help the over 50s back to work.
23 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
New Enterprise Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mentors are working to assist the delivery of the New Enterprise Allowance.
23 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Asbestos
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Health and Safety Executive inspectors have received training on the removal of asbestos from licensed premises since 2009.
23 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Armed Forces: Asbestos
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the exposure of armed forces to the risks of asbestos.
23 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
New Enterprise Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) qualifications and (b) experience are required to be an adviser on the New Enterprise Allowance programme.
22 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming universal credit have accessed short term benefit advances to date.
22 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Jobseeker's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were refused income-based jobseekers' allowance in 2013-14 as a result of their having more than £16,000 in personal savings.
22 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been allowed backdated universal credit claims to date.
22 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Asbestos
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many premises inspectors of the Health and Safety Executive visited as part of inspections of the licensed removal of asbestos in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.
22 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on short term benefit advances for claimants of universal credit in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date.
21 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress he has made on commissioning the Health and Disability Assessment Service; and if he will make a statement.
21 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Experience
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2014 to Question 209803, how many of the people undertaking work experience have since entered paid employment.
21 Oct 2014 · Cabinet Office
Unemployment: Young People
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the status is of Sir Jeremy Heywood's review of provision for 16 to 24 year olds.
21 Oct 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Minimum Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2014 to Question 201383, how much was spent on national minimum wage enforcement in 2013-14.
21 Oct 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
ACAS
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to evaluate the effect of the ACAS early conciliation service on keeping workplace disputes out of court.
20 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2014 to Question 209722, how many work programme participants he expects to be surveyed in the evaluation he has commissioned; and what criteria he has set out for s
20 Oct 2014 · HM Treasury
Minimum Wage
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the investigation by HM Revenue and Customs against the five firms named and shamed for breach of the National Minimum Wage by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on 28 February 2014 began; and wh
20 Oct 2014 · HM Treasury
Minimum Wage
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employers have been issued with two or more notices of underpayment of the National Minimum Wage since 7 March 2014.
20 Oct 2014 · HM Treasury
Minimum Wage
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2014, Official Report, column 246W, in which months the investigations by HM Revenue and Customs commenced against each of the 25 firms named and shamed for breach of the National Mi
20 Oct 2014 · Cabinet Office
Jobcentres
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his policy is on mutualising Jobcentre Plus.
17 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Jobseeker's Allowance: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the jobseeker's allowance claimant count has been sanctioned in each month from October 2012 to date.
17 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Industrial Health and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department plans to take to respond to the European Commission's new Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2014-2020.
17 Oct 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people who accessed a traineeship in the last 12 months have progressed to an accredited apprenticeship.
14 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures he uses to assess the timeliness of payments in the benefits system.
14 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people stopped claiming employment and support allowance (ESA) in 2013 after gaining insufficient points in a Work Capability Assessment; and how many such people were claiming jobseeker's allo
10 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason a benefit sanction was imposed on Mr David Clapson in June 2014; and if he will make a statement.
26 Sep 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Industrial Health and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to contribute to the European Commission's review of health and safety policy; and if he will make a statement.
26 Sep 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Experience
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on the Work Experience scheme.
Source: official written-questions record.